Re: [secdir] proxies and forwarding of credentials, was: SECDIR review of draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-24

[Mark Nottingham <[e-mail]>]

It entirely depends upon the way that they’re cooperating… sometimes you’d want to forward them, sometimes not. If we were defining a proxy authentication cooperation protocol here, I could understand a MUST here, but as we’re not, I don’t think we want to constrain how one might operate…

Cheers,


On 1 Nov 2013, at 7:01 am, Stephen Kent <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Julian,
> 
> I alos don't have personal experience with the proxy situation. I was just commenting on
> what appeared to be a logical inconsistency in the text.
> 
> I defer to others, who have such experience, on this detail.
> 
> Steve
>> On 2013-10-29 20:35, Stephen Kent wrote:
>>> ...
>>> In Section 4.3, the text says:
>>> 
>>> A proxy MAY relay
>>> 
>>> the credentials from the client request to the next proxy if that is
>>> 
>>> the mechanism by which the proxies cooperatively authenticate a given
>>> 
>>> request.
>>> 
>>> If, as stated here, a set of proxies cooperatively authenticate a
>>> request, then isn’t this a MUST vs. a MAY?
>>> ...
>> 
>> Maybe. I have no experience with proxy authentication, and this piece of text was copied from <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#rfc.section.14.34>.
>> 
>> Perhaps this is a case where we should drop the RFC2119 keywords and just make a statement such as:
>> 
>> "A proxy can relay the credentials from the client request to the next proxy if that is the mechanism by which the proxies cooperatively authenticate a given request."
>> 
>> ?
>> 
>> Best regards, Julian
>> 
> 

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